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Yale University (New Haven), Conn.) distributed honorary degrees to Edward S. Harkness, '97, a wealthy benefactor; the Rev. S. Parkes Cadman, "one of the foremost pulpit orators of the world"; Robert Andrews Milliken, President of the California-Institute of Technology; Ernest Martin Hopkins, President of Dartmouth College; Alumnus John Hays Hammond, mining engineer; Alumnus Gifford Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania; Owen D. Young, Chairman of the Board of the Radio Corporation of America; Alumnus James Rockwell Sheffield, U. S. Ambassador to Mexico...
...banishing from the immediate vicinity of the Yard two such dubious developments. Mr. Stillman has proved himself a true benefactor of the University...
Through the interest and cooperation of Gabriel Wells, the firm of Edgar 11. Wells and Co, secured it for the University library. It was presented by an anonymous benefactor, a graduate of the University, in memory of Lionel de Jersey Harvard '15, who died in the World...
...looks easy to say to France: "We wont across now you come across"; but there is more to it than that. This attitude involves the fundamental fallacy of demanding gold where there is none, and of antagonizing a friend and benefactor by an impossible severity. If there is wisdom in Washington, the United States will foster the restoration of French finance as the first condition of repayment, and tax reduction at home will be left entirely to the slower but surer policy of retrenchment...
Tomorrow is the 317th anniversary of the birth of John Harvard. In recognition of the occasion the Library has placed in one of the exhibition cases in the Treasure Room a collection of memorials of the College's first benefactor, including views, facsimiles of documents, the original list of his library as written out in the College Records, and the one remaining book which actually belonged to him. Other books whose titles are in the Harvard list are included...